Since plasma is largely involved in autoimmune diseases, plasma exchanges have been used to treat these patients. In the first part of this paper the authors review the indications for plasmapheresis, which they divide into two groups: autoimmune diseases proper, and diseases with autoimmune phenomena. In the second part, the results available in t...

Eleven cases of monoclonal gammopathy associated with chronic hepato-biliary diseases are reported. The gammopathy was benign and the majority of hepato-biliary diseases consisted of cirrhosis complicated or not by hepatocellular carcinoma. The small number of cases reported and the absence of distinctive clinical, biochemical and evolutive feature...